GPT-5 Model Boosts ChatGPT To PhD Level

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ChatGPT creator OpenAI has unveiled and taken a significant step and launched the long-awaited latest version of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot, GPT-5, saying it can provide PhD-level expertise.

Claimed to to be "smarter, faster, and more useful," OpenAI co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman lauded the company's new model as ushering in a new era of ChatGPT. Altman also believes that GPT 5 marks a major step to achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

AGI refers to the hypothetical intelligence of a machine that has the ability to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human can, according to Google. It essentially aims to mimic the cognitive abilities of the human brain.

GPT-5's release and claims of its PhD-level abilities in areas such as coding and writing come as tech firms continue to compete to have the most advanced AI chatbot.

Elon Musk recently made similar claims of his own AI chatbot, Grok, which has been plugged into X (formerly Twitter).During the launch of Grok's latest iteration last month, Musk said it was "better than PhD level in everything" and called it the world's "smartest AI". Meanwhile, Altman said OpenAI's new model would suffer from fewer hallucinations, the phenomenon whereby large language models make up answers, and be less deceptive.

OpenAI is also pitching GPT-5 to coders as a proficient assistant, following a trend among major American AI developers, including Anthropic whose Claude Code targets the same market.

What GPT-5 Does

OpenAI has highlighted GPT-5's ability to create software in its entirety and demonstrate better reasoning capabilities - with answers that show workings, logic and inference. The company claims it has been trained to be more honest, provide users with more accurate responses and says that, overall, it feels more human. According to Altman, the model is significantly better than its predecessors.

The company has demonstrated how GPT-5 can write hundreds of lines of code in seconds and create tools such as a French-language learning programme. Staff said the technology is also writing less robotically and had the chatbot create a more nuanced eulogy. Altman said ChatGPT was a good tool for healthcare advice too, bringing on stage a woman who had been diagnosed with cancer last year to talk about how the chatbot helped her decide whether or not to get radiation therapy.

Despite thse bold claims, the release of ChatGPT 5 has not been without criticism, with users reporting numerous issues and a general sense of disappointment. Some users finf the new model to be unreliable, slow, and lacking the capabilities of its predecessor, GPT-4o, despite being touted as a significant leap forward. Some users even described the experience as a "forced downgrade" and a "disaster".

Criticism focuses on the issue of unreliable routing. GPT-5's automatic routing to optimal models based on query complexity appers to be a major point of failure, causing users to be switched to slower, less capable models, even for simple tasks.

While this and ther problems will noubt be rapidly fixed, the swirl of negative feedback will be welcomed by OpenAI's competitors.

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